Social Media Propaganda: Unmasking Deepfakes in Pro-China Campaigns - A Case for Responsible AI
June 13, 2020
Uncover the tactics of a pro-China propaganda campaign as they deployed deepfake accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Using Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to synthesize faces, these accounts shared and posted comments to gain circulation. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- spamouflage-dragon
- Alleged developer
- unknown
- Alleged harmed parties
- facebook-users, twitter-users, youtube-users
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/328
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
When citing the database as a whole, please use:
McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide
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